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US comedy Sketch Show " Saturday Night Live, dropped a new cast member, after videos emerged online of him and slurs about the Chinese people.

Shane Gillis , 31, was announced Under Fire soon after its casting, if the Material turned up from a podcast with The Comic .

"After the conversation with Shane Gillis , we have decided that he didn't say SNL will join", an SNL spokesperson.

Gillis wrote on Twitter that The Show respected the decision.

"of course, I wanted the opportunity to prove myself on SNL, but I understand it would be too much of a distraction," he said, just a week after it was announced he would be the NBC show.

The SNL speaker, the statement that the decision to fire Gillis was followed, said on Monday a discussion with The Comic . "We want to have a SNL, a variety of voices and points of view in The Show , and we put Shane on the strength of his talent as a comedian and his impressive audition for SNL," he said.

"We were not aware of his previous comments, which appeared in the last few days. The language he used is offensive, hurtful and not acceptable.

"we are sorry that we see these clips earlier, and that our review was not up to our standard. "

Gillis' casting came under the control of only a few hours after SNL announced that he would be one of three new employees for the 45. Season.

A podcast of September 2018 came into circulation, in which Mr. Gillis mocked the Chinese, and described his comments as "nice racism".

to describe In a further episode in the same month, Mr. Gillis, to hear homophobic insults was Hollywood producer Judd Apatow and comedian Chris Gethard .

Gillis defended the comments on Twitter said, he is a comedian ", which pushes the boundaries". He continued: "My intention is never to hurt anyone, but I try to be The Best comedian I can be and sometimes requires risks. "

Shortly after the recordings in circulation, the Good Comedy Theatre in Philadelphia, Gillis' hometown, said on Twitter The Club had "taken a conscious decision to work" with him because of his "obvious racism, sexism, homophobia expressed, both on and behind the stage".

comedian Rob Schneider , a regular on SNL in the 1990s, tweeted his support for Gillis, he had broken the "culture of unforgiveness".

Fellow comics SNL-decision, while the U.S. series "Lights Out " with David Spade .

Jeffries said The Move was only a symptom of the "cancel " culture". He said: "The guy should not have been fired. There are only a few things is back in his story - we go through each story? Or are we going to get rid of each sketch, SNL has done includes race?"

Burr added: "You Have to go back and try and look back on the good things that could have done the person, or You 're only looking for The Bad stuff?

"You that anyone could do. I don't understand it. Millennials - they are a bunch of rats. None of You care; all You want to do is get people in trouble. "

the Taiwanese-American presidential candidate Andrew Yang , referred to Gillis, has said, with a bow in a podcast: "The Comedian "deserves one more chance, to his job", but the company has "the end of fee is punitive and vindictive".

"I thought, if I could put a sign, that we can forgive people, especially in an instance where, in my head, it was in a comedic context, or a gray area, that I thought it would be positive,"

Yang said, Gillis has reached to him, and the two have a discussion soon.

to be had in addition to the Gillis, SNL announced the appointment of two additional new cast: Chloe Fineman , and Bowen Yang .

Yang will be the first full-time Chinese-American actor.

Source of news: bbc.com